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Jinhao Need bottled ink
or refills?
"Hi Norman, I received the
Jinhao Pearl Windows on Monday and it is all that you said it was in the
recent Pen World article! Thank you. It
is a very excellent pen."
T. M., Pasadena, CA
"Got the pens yesterday. Awesome, is all I can
say! They are fine tuned, better than I could imagine, and write as smooth
as China silk! Many Thanks!!"
"Hallo Norman, the windows shocked me….it is
very heavy (which I love), very wide and with a firm and steady writing. I
am very happy with it and left all my other pens aside for the time being……I
am impressed. "I forgot to say in my last email a big thanks for your lovely handwritten origami letter, your visit card and the lovely pink seal, it made me feel like a princess. The pen is very beautiful (you have chosen lovely shades, thanks!) and I love the size and how smoothly it glides on the paper...I have filled it with a purple scented ink and it is lovely, I just miss that beautiful golden dot on the cap to finish it off in beauty. I personally think the dot made it looks million bucks, more beautiful than this 'western' style logo."
"Dear Norman, my beautiful Pearl Windows pen just
arrived. When I ordered it, I wasn't sure how it would measure up to the
reigning favourite (my Sapphire), but I was willing
to give it a try. I was surprised at how impressive and pleasingly hefty a pen
it is. After I prepped it, I loaded it up with ink and gave it a whirl. It
glided gracefully across the page like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers! When
I'm not using it, I keep it out just so I can admire it. It's definitely a
keeper. The downside to my purchase? It's whetted my appetite for at least
one more of your pens! Thanks for
providing another lovely product!"
"Dear Norman, I received the Pearl Windows fountain
pen. Yikes it lovely! It writes like a dream. I'm using it for some extremely
important healthful New Year journaling/processing. With purple ink. Thanks also
for your gracious help in discerning the efficaciousness of my "hint" regarding
this pen to my husband! It worked out perfectly!" Please note: In my recent orders of the model, the cap shown throughout this page has been replaced by the logo-insert, sword-and-shield clip cap shown here: Pearl Windows fountain pen
This oversized beauty measures 5-3/4" capped, 6-3/4" posted and 4-7/8" with cap held aside. Due to its lacquer-over-brass construction -- and given its size -- this is a pen that you might want to write with unposted, although I find it remains quite balanced even with the cap affixed. This is really a stunning pen. The Mother-of-Pearl inlays are of course all unique, so one pen will differ a great deal in appearance from another. Due to the grid pattern employed, it reminds me of a series of windows (there are eighteen panels or windows in all). The top of the cap evokes the pinnacle of many Chinese temples and adds a nice balance to the weight of the gold-plated clip and cap band. The center of the decorated clip displays the Chinese character for 'blessings', and the characters on the cap band roughly translate as 'blessings from the east' or 'orient'. Removing the slip cap (which re-positions with a satisfying 'click', or friction posts on the barrel end) displays the oversized, two-toned 18K gold-plated nib. Along with scrollwork, the nib is engraved with 'Jinhao' and '18KGP'. I'd rate this as a true western medium. Unscrewing the all-metal threads between the section and barrel displays the piston converter for bottled ink. It will also take International-style cartridges, such as those from Private Reserve. As with all new pens, I recommend to run a dilute solution of dishwashing soap (two or three drops to a small bowl of water) through a new pen a few times, followed by water only. Step one is effective at removing manufacturing oils that can tend to make the ink less than enthusiastic in heading from the converter/filler to the nib, and step two removes the traces of the detergent you've used...which tends to have the opposite, diuretic effect. A gift box is included. IMPORTANT SERVICE NOTE: Every nib that ships from His Nibs is closely examined under high magnification and tuned or adjusted if needed. About 85% of modern nibs need some adjustment out-of-the-box from the manufacturer for an optimal writing experience. Most commonly, the tines of the nib are misaligned -- which would cause scratchiness at the minimum; the slit between the tines is partially or fully closed -- which would starve the nib of ink and at best cause skipping; or the slit between the tines is too wide -- which will either again cause skipping, or conversely, flooding. There are other factors -- such as separation of the nib from the feed -- that are inspected and repaired before any pen leaves the Palace. The only 100% guarantee of course comes when the pen is actually filled with ink and written with for the first time, but our pre-shipping inspections and tunings have eliminated 99.99999 (my finger is getting tired) of the frustrations that a customer experiences when first using a new fountain pen. Although this can be time-consuming on occasion, it affords our customers a much more pleasant experience when receiving a fountain pen from His Nibs -- and saves us the frustration of dealing with returns! |
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[Basil Shikin] was thinking about different types of locks, and was trying to come up with a locking solution that he had yet to see. It dawned on him that he had never come across a lock triggered by music, so he set off to construct one of his own.
He ordered a wooden chest online, then proceeded to piece together the electronics required for the locking mechanism as well as the music detecting logic. Using an Atmega328P paired with an electret mic, his system listens for a particular tune (the Prelude of Light from the Ocarina of Time) to be played , which triggers a tiny servo to undo the latch. To do this, he implemented a version of the Goertzel Algorithm on the Arduino, allowing him to accurately detect the magical tune by frequency, regardless of what instrument it is played on.
Be sure to check out the video below to see his musical lock in action.

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Proverb Expansion
No doubt, money is an essential, almost indispensable article in the present day world. It is the 'money' through which we can purchase all the necessary comforts and amenities of life. If you have money, you can obtain what seems impossible to others. It is the money which gives a man, confidence, credit worthiness, credentials, capacity, capabilities and courage. In present day materialistic world, money has become very powerful. The present day corruption, cut throat competition, callous degradation of moral and ethical values, are all for the sake of grabbing and accumulating more and more money. The prestige, respect, social status, commanded by a person is calculated as per his monetary status.
Time has gone, when we valued a person in terms of his moral and ethical values. People were earlier known for keeping their words, for donating everything to a donee. Now, people are known in terms of their ranking in the list of rich of the world. Money has become the centre of all activities. Money and muscle power have become essential ingredients of a successful political leader.
Money is regarded as omnipotent by a few people, particularly by the poor. As whatever one does not possess, one aspires it badly, and it becomes mono aim of achievement. The rich, that own lots of money, still crave for earning more and more, by hook or by crook, with fair or foul means, without caring even for their own health or own family. They are the servants of money, earning money not for the sake of themselves but for the sake of money and a time comes they find themselves unable to use the money for their happiness. They are unable to eat, unable to taste the most delicious dish, unable to move, walk or enjoy because they suffer from many diseases which are the result of their undue craving for wealth at the cost of health. Can one purchase everything with the power of money? No, one cannot. You cannot purchase inner satisfaction with money, you cannot purchase the lost youthfulness with money, and you cannot purchase time when you die whatever you might be ready to pay.
Those who earn money simply to have more money, more balance in their accounts are no better than the proverbial miser king 'Midas'. Excessive love for money makes a man slave of money. Money is important for our life, but it is not the most important thing for a human being. Those who use money for fulfilling their necessities, acquiring reasonable comforts and for the welfare of a common good are the masters of money. But, those who earn money just for the sake of increasing its volume are slaves of the money. They are the most unfortunate creatures of God who know well that whatever money they are earning, they can't take an iota of that with them when they die. What a paradox! Money has become their master and they are just slaves, having no peace of mind, no moral and ethical values, and no inner satisfaction.
So, it is rightly said that money is a good servant but a bad master. Let us earn money for our comfort, not for the sake of hording more and more of it.


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Brno (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)
Brno (German, Brünn), Moravia (Jihomoravský kraj), Czech Republic (pop. 360,000 in 2006), formerly the seat of the Moravian Provincial Diet or Estates (Landtag). Moravia once belonged to the kingdom of Bohemia and with it fell to the Habsburgs in 1526. After 1918 it was part of the Czechoslovakian Republic (Czech Republic after 1993). Since the 18th century Brno was also the seat of a Catholic bishop, while formerly it belonged to the diocese of Olomuce (Olmütz). The Hutterite Chronicle reports that in the 16th century four Anabaptist brethren were martyred in this city, among them Thoman and Balthasar Waldhausen in 1528, and Wilhelm Griesbacher of Tyrol in 1535. As seat of the Provincial Diet, the city is often mentioned in the Chronicle, particularly at the time of the imminent outbreak of the Thirty Years' War. Brno has a Provincial State Archive (Landesarchiv) which contains most valuable Anabaptist source material, namely, 15 Hutterite manuscript books (about half of them of the 16th and 17th centuries) and the famous Beck Collection, comprising 104 files with transcripts and some originals of practically everything Hutterite, or of some relationship to this brotherhood. (See Beck, Joseph von). The material was widely used by scholars up to the great political changes around 1940.
See Moravia
Bender, Harold S. "Anabaptist Manuscripts in the Archives at Brno, Czechoslovakia." Mennonite Quarterly Review (1949): 105-107. He lists, however, only 12 codices instead of 15.
Author(s) | Robert Friedmann |
Date Published | 1953 |
Cite This Article
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Friedmann, Robert. "Brno (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 27 Feb 2024. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Brno_(Jihomoravsk%C3%BD_kraj,_Czech_Republic)&oldid=143502.
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Friedmann, Robert. (1953). Brno (Jihomoravský kraj, Czech Republic). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 27 February 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Brno_(Jihomoravsk%C3%BD_kraj,_Czech_Republic)&oldid=143502.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, pp. 432-433. All rights reserved.
©1996-2024 by the Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. All rights reserved.


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Furcal, SS
Kemp, CF
Ethier, RF
Manny, LF
Loney, 1B
Blake, 3B
Belliard, 2B
Martin, C
Wolf P
Also, Game 3 starter is Vicente Padilla, with Chad Billingsley to pitch Game 4, if needed.
Random rantings and ravings about the Los Angeles Dodgers, written by a small consortium of rabid Dodger fans. With occasional comments on baseball, entertainment, pop culture, and life in general.
Furcal, SS
Kemp, CF
Ethier, RF
Manny, LF
Loney, 1B
Blake, 3B
Belliard, 2B
Martin, C
Wolf P
Also, Game 3 starter is Vicente Padilla, with Chad Billingsley to pitch Game 4, if needed.
wow what a difference a meaningless game makes. I know Vicente looked good on Sunday but if he had been regular Vicente (5 or 6 innings, 2-3 runs, in and out of trouble), I would wonder if he would have been on the playoff roster at all
Chad's simulated game must not have gone well
No Hudson for game 1...is he hurt or sitting because mini-Manny is playing that much better?
There's an article on the simulated game on dodgers.com, but all it says is that he made 82 pitches over 5 innings.
Rumor has it that Odoggy is 1-15 against Carpenter/Wainright this year.
Wow, riding the Belliard train.
Hudson's absence is pretty huge; TBLA did a good job laying out its surprise as well about O-Dog's O-Mission. Hmm.
*checking ERs for KempKershaw*
Dusty- I disagree with it, think it's an absurd choice, but am I shocked Torre did something I consider insane, stupid, wrong, and detrimental to the team's best chance at success? No.
I hope Padilla pitches well, and I can't wait to see Chad pitch at some point in the playoffs.
Again, I think it's a ridiculous choice, but what do I know, right?
Curious decision from our vantage point, but since none of us (that I know of) has any perspective from the coaches on this (yet), we're left to opine.
Belliard for O-dawg is a no-brainer. MSTI reported that earlier. He can't hit Carpenter. In the mean time, I think most of us were expecting Bills to flip the play-off switch and bring it vs. the Cards. We'll have to wait until the "if necessary" game to find out.
Let's put it simply, if we were to lose 1 and 2, do we really want Padilla in 3?
Do you really think we stand a chance at all if we lose the first two games at home. At that point it wouldn't really matter.
"Let's put it simply, if we were to lose 1 and 2, do we really want Padilla in 3?"
No, I'd want Kuroda (and a STIFF drink), but I'm fine with Padilla. I want Chad to be awesome Chad, but he's clearly not at the moment. And basically, no one has time to wait for him to find himself. It's sad, but thems the brakes.
Sorry...them's the breaks.
Anyone have a reference to how Bills pitched in the simulated game yesterday? I know his overall stats have been mentioned, but is there anything out there about how well he did (or didn't) specifically?
Maybe it just came down to if we need to throw at someone's head, we know VPad will but Bills won't. (<==that was a joke, for the record)
If we're down 0-2, then I'm ready to concede the series. I think Padilla's got enough in him anyway to really be effective if it became a do-or-die start. He's cold-blooded.
You know, listening to all of these pundits talk about how the Rockies gave the Dodgers all they wanted in the division is funny, because they never bring up the reason why the Rockies didn't win the division...they lost 14 of 18 to the Dodgers...14 of 18!!! I mean has a playoff team been so owned?
speaking of the Rockies, I dont want to be mean and laugh, but their game 3 starter is gonna be Jason Hamel
Cliff Lee to get ball for Phils in Game 1. De La Rosa out for NLDS.
I am a bit surprised that Torre decided to go with Belly 2.0 instead of O-Dog. Torre is usually the kind of guy that sticks with the guy he brought to the dance. Not that I'm complaining. Even with a bad groin Belly 2.0 can get a hit.
WSJ article on Vinny:
Dodger Thoughts has more:
DreamWeaver in, Joyce DeWitt already in AZ.
Lineup looks good to me. Glad Chad is getting a chance in the playoffs, got a gut feeling he'll come through for us.
Bison blogging in the NLDS:
the roster is in
Outfield: Manny, Ethier, Kemp, Pierre
Infield: Loney, Blake, Furcal, Hudson, Belliard, Loretta, Thome, Castro
Catchers: Martin, Ausmus
Starters: Wolf, Kershaw, Padilla, Bills
Relievers: Broxton, Sherrill, Kuo, Beilisario, Troncoso
Long: Garland, Weaver
no surprises
The main problem with Thome is that if he is to get on base, you have to burn a backup to pinch-run for him. I guess that puts extra pressure on him to homer :)
I would have swapped EyeChart for Thome for the reasons stated by MLSF.
It's probably a good thing Thome doesn't get on base very often then.
Definitely would have gone w Eye Chart, in my opinion. He showed in the last game (exhibition as it may have been) that he could not only field but also hit. More than Thome can say on both accounts. Then, if (I mean when!) we get to the WS, Thome comes into play as DH perhaps.
I fully agree with the sentiments regarding Eye Chart. Can hit, can run, can field, has a ton of playoff and WS experience.
Right-o, RB. And it this point it's about versatility, mainly, for this kind of roster spot. Thome can do one thing, Eye Chart can do many. Same on the pitching side with Weaver.
How about Eye Chart over Loretta? Or do we need that right handed bat?
4/2 vs. AZ (L, 1-2): AC, Sax
4/17 vs. NYM (L, 6-8): Sax
5/1 vs. PHI (W, 13-4): Sax
5/13 vs. SD (W, 4-2): Sax
5/30 vs. WSH (W, 9-3): Sax
7/5 vs. PIT (W, 6-4): Sax
8/30 vs. AZ (W, 7-0): Sax
8/31 vs. ATL (L, 7-8): Sax
9/22 vs. SF (L, 1-5): Sax
9/30 @ SF (L, 1-2): Sax


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Had I walked out of the Porta-Potty ten seconds earlier, I might have inadvertently hit Jay-Z in the face with the door. But let me back up a bit.
Standing in line for the restrooms at Jay-Z's Made in America Festival last weekend, I noticed a two-level structure about 100 feet away, decked out with plush red chairs, clear views of the main stage and what appeared to be an open bar. Intrigued, I asked the yellow-shirted security guard nearby if journalists were permitted. No, she said, the area was reserved for VIPs—namely, Jay-Z, Beyoncé and their entourage; in fact, she said, they had just walked by the media tent an hour earlier. That was the only part of the day I wasn't there (I was sitting on a gigantic plastic hammer interviewing The Hives).
This wasn't the first time I'd narrowly missed Jay-Z since writing Empire State of Mind (Penguin/Portfolio, 2011), an unauthorized biography of the rapper. On multiple occasions, I've found myself a dozen feet from him at concerts, separated only by a small barrier; I sat six seats down from him and Beyoncé at the Michael Jackson Immortal show in Vegas last December, but they arrived after the show started and left before it ended, taking with them my chance to hear his reaction to my book.
I figured it would happen eventually, and I wasn't in any particular rush. After spending a year of my life researching the man, I felt I knew him as well as I could know someone I'd never met. But I was curious. More specifically, I wanted to introduce myself and observe what would happen, just to see, as a journalist, how he'd react—and give myself some perspective on the most significant professional project of my life thus far.
So on Sunday, when I walked out of the Porta-Potty into the muggy Philadelphia evening and saw Jay-Z standing with Beyoncé fifteen feet away, there was only one thing I could do (and it wasn't belting the chorus to "Crazy in Love" in my best falsetto). It was to make that introduction and see what would happen.
I took a step forward, just as Jay-Z and his bodyguards turned in my direction. Beyoncé stayed behind, engrossed in some other conversation. As Jay-Z and I approached each other our eyes met, and his lingered for a split second before drifting away. Then, as I'd always planned, I offered a statement, not a question.
"Jay," I said, as he strode past me, not turning his head, "I'm the guy who wrote the book about you."
He kept walking, and for a moment, I thought he was pretending he hadn't heard me. Then he tossed a glance over his shoulder and offered his thoughts.
"That book was horrible!" he said.
Then he laughed that high, rapidfire laugh that sometimes makes its way into the beginnings and ends of his tracks, and sauntered off around a corner.
So that was the moment. I'm not sure if he was trying to demoralize me, or joke with me, or if his comment was simply the only retort he could come up with in the moments spent walking away, pretending not to have heard my greeting. If his intent was the former, he certainly didn't succeed—a heap of hip-hop tastemakers have praised my book, from Fab 5 Freddy to Dan Charnas, as have a slew of news outlets ranging from the Financial Times to Bloomberg News.
But Jay-Z's comment did something significant. It confirmed, as a few sources close to him had already told me, that he'd read the book—I didn't even have to mention the title, or where I worked—and that something about it had hit him close to the core, close enough that he'd fire off a generic insult rather than walking along silently and keeping his trademark composure.
As far as I'm concerned, that means I've done my job as a journalist. I'm not in this business to make friends, nor am I interested in tearing people down needlessly. My book was by no means a case of the latter—in fact, some outlets accused me of being too kind to Jay-Z as I chronicled his impressive rise from street corner to corner office. But his reaction tells me that I managed to touch something essential about him, too close for his own comfort. And that's more than enough for me.
Observing that reaction checked a box that I'd been meaning to check for the past three years of my life. Now, as Jay-Z and his frequent collaborator Swizz Beatz might say, I'm on to the next one: a business-focused biography of Michael Jackson.
Without a doubt, Jay-Z's comment was the best negative review I've ever received. Still, I suspect I would have had an even more interesting story if I'd opened that Porta-Potty a few seconds earlier.
For more, check out Empire State of Mind: How Jay-Z Went From Street Corner to Corner Office. You can also follow me on Twitter and Facebook.


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Are we Loving Nuun?
Loving the Bike will periodically be doing cycling related product reviews. Continue to check back with us for future reviews, and contact us if there is a specific product that you'd like our opinion on. Most reviews will be on supplements and nutrition products because they interest us and we feel we can provide some helpful advice in this area.
Nuun Active Hydration
I have to start off by saying that although I've only used Nuun a handful of times, I am a huge fan of their product, company, and corporate culture. With that said, I promise this review will be completely un-biased and provide you with a real world look at their product. My review is from the perspective of a cyclist who loves the bike and is totally motivated to improve himself or herself and get the most out of their rides. A cyclist who is ready to challenge themselves to their personal max, and not necessarily a competitive rider.
Let me first tell you the concept behind Nuun. It is an electrolyte product "designed, formulated and tested to keep you optimally hydrated, wherever you are". It is not a carbohydrate product, but can be used along with a carbohydrate drink should you need something for that purpose as well.
I'm going to tell you a little bit more about the company and why I love their culture so much, but let me get right into my actual review.
What Loving the Bike has to say
Like I said, I've only used Nuun a few times; about 7 times on the road, and once on the indoor trainer. But, each and every time, I have had an incredible ride. If I had to sum it up in one sentence, I would say that when I use Nuun, it honestly feels as if oxygen is being pumped into my bloodstream. I'm serious. I have visions of the O2 cells pumping through my veins. And of course, more oxygen in the blood means higher performance from the body. This is the experience I've had using Nuun on outdoor road rides. I've only used it once indoors and although it helped me through a great trainer session, I didn't experience that same feeling of the oxygen in my blood. Maybe it is the heat and elements that provided that feeling outdoors, I'm not sure. But on the indoor ride, I did have the sensation of it seeping into my tongue and going into my body.
There is not the sudden energy boost like you'd find in something like a caffeine based drink. The benefits I find by using Nuun are more in the way of a feeling that my body is working efficiently and humming along like a Lamborghini. So if you're looking for a product to give you a quick fix and motivate you to get out there and ride when you just don't feel like it, this one likely won't do it.
One of the greatest benefits is that it won't upset your stomach or cramp your muscles….at least it never has for me. I've used a few products in the past that have done this, so I've always been leery of trying new ones. That's actually the reason it took me until just a few months ago to try it out. I was worried that it was going to upset my stomach and disrupt my ride.
Okay, so how do you use it?
First of all, I would definitely not recommend you use Nuun every time you ride. I feel that if you did that, it would lose it's edge and some of the benefits and performance it gives you would be lost. "But how can having your body work more efficiently every single time be a bad thing", you say? Like with everything else, your body becomes accustomed to whatever it considers normal. I guess if you plan on using Nuun for pretty much every future ride you take, then it might be okay. I know Nuun would love that. But my recommendation is this:
Which days?
Days when you need uplifting – Use it on the days when you need that psychological boost to get you out there. Yeah, I know I said it wouldn't give you that sudden boost. It will help your body work a little more efficiently, which will make you feel more energized, and in turn your psychological state of mind will be better as well.
Long ride or big days – Use it on the days when you are going to challenge yourself by going on a longer than normal ride. Use it on the days when you plan on hitting some hills that you generally do not dare to climb. Use it on the days that you know you'll be challenging yourself more than usual.
Race days and Charity Rides – Use it on important days. If you're a competitive rider, use it on race days. If you are a cyclist challenging yourself to take part in a charity ride like the LiveSTRONG Challenge or Copper Triangle….Use it for the big day.
Timing and Proceedure
On the days when you're using Nuun as a psychological boost, drink the whole thing down in a bottle approximately 30 minutes before taking off on your ride.
On the long ride or big days, throw the tab into your water bottle….not your first bottle, but the second one you are taking along. Let it sit there in your cage and once you've used up your first bottle of water, dig into the second Nuun filled bottle and it will kick in just when you need it.
For the race and charity rides, chug down one Nuun filled bottle about 30 to 45 minutes before the start, but also carry one along for the ride. Depending on your riding style, I would use the second Nuun filled bottle when you need it. If you generally lack kick at the beginning, use it first. If you find that you need that something extra later on in your ride, use it second….or third.
How many tabs?
When I first bought Nuun, the person helping me at the store advised me that I should drop two tabs into my bottle, even though Nuun recommends one. I didn't follow her advice and I still haven't to this day. I might experiment with it sometime, but I don't believe two tabs per bottle is necessary. I'm sure Nuun spent a lot of time developing and testing the product, and created it so that one tab is all you need at a time. I've been happy with the results of using one tab per bottle and feel that it's best.
Nuun claims that its strengths are portability, balance, refreshment, and simplicity. I must agree. Everything from the packaging right down to the performance is clean and simple. Definitely simple. This company only makes one product and doesn't even go crazy with an overload of flavor choices. Simple is good.
Nuun states that their product is good for usage in any physical activity. I've personally only used it for cycling, but I can't see why it wouldn't be great for any type of fitness. It's a product to improve the mechanics of your body while exercising so I'm sure it will enhance your performance no matter what your doing.
And how about that corporate culture?
The correspondence I've had with their staff and the image portrayed on their website has shown me that they are one cool company. They seem so laid back and genuine, and I love it. I think it is the simplicity that makes them that way. Nuun provides better hydration to our body and better hydration to the planet. By selling their product as tabs in small tubes, they are significantly limiting the amount of waste from its use. There are twelve less plastic bottles being sold every time you buy it. In fact, the company is partnered with an organization called the New American Dream which is all about breaking the plastic bottle habit.
In conclusion, I would like to thank my riding buddies from Austin, Texas (Team AC2) for turning me onto Nuun. It's a great product and very cool company.


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Environment: Visual C++ 5.0, NT4, Oxygen GMX2000 graphics accelerator
Here is a fairly fast and easy way to use a Windows bitmap file (.bmp file) as a
texture map in OpenGL. The limitation is that it only works with 24-bit bitmaps.
To work with other bitmaps you need to pick apart the pixel values and look them up
in the images color table which is a bit more complicated.
You can load a bitmap using the Windows API function LoadImage.
To load an image from a file use:
HBITMAP hBmp = (HBITMAP) ::LoadImage (NULL, (LPCTSTR) fileName, IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_LOADFROMFILE | LR_CREATEDIBSECTION);
where filename is the name of the bitmap file. According to the documentation
this doesn't work on Windows NT but I'm running NT 4.0 and it works fine for me.
To load an image from the resources use:
HBITMAP hBmp = (HBITMAP) ::LoadImage (AfxGetResourceHandle(), MAKEINTRESOURCE(IDB_BITMAP1), IMAGE_BITMAP, 0, 0, LR_CREATEDIBSECTION);
where IDB_BITMAP1 is the ID of the bitmap resource.
Note that bitmaps created in the DevStudio resource editor are not 24-bit color.
You'll need to create your bitmap with some other program (like mspaint).
Once you have a handle to the bitmap you can get information about it with the windows function GetObject. GetObject fills in a BITMAP structure that contains the dimensions, bits per pixel and a pointer to the pixels themselves.
BITMAP BM; ::GetObject (hBmp, sizeof (BM), &BM);
If the bitmap is a 24-bit bitmap then the format that the RGB values stored is not far off from the way OpenGL RGB bitmaps are formed. BM.bmBits points to an array of unsigned chars where each set of 3 bytes represents an BGR value – an RGB value where blue and red are switched. In addition each row of the bitmap must start on a longword boundary so rows are padded with extra bytes at the end to ensure this.
In order for OpenGL to ignore the padding at the end of the rows use:
glPixelStorei(GL_UNPACK_ALIGNMENT, 4);
This is the default setting on most systems.
In order for OpenGL to understand BGR use GL_BGR_EXT instead of GL_RGB in your call to glTexImage2D or gluBuild2DMipmaps:
gluBuild2DMipmaps( GL_TEXTURE_2D, 3, BM.bmWidth, BM.bmHeight, GL_BGR_EXT, GL_UNSIGNED_BYTE, BM.bmBits );
Note that if you use glTexImage2D instead of gluBuild2DMipmaps you'll have to scale the
image so that both dimensions are a power of 2.
The sample program uses these routines to load a bitmap and texture map it onto a sphere.
The interesting code is in the LoadTexture method of the view class.
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Exploring an alternative approach on World War II, one in which Hitler is assassinated in the early days, players will take command of experimental weapons, prototype vehicles and units rarely seen in strategy games in an attempt to re-write or secure the historical outcome.
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Choose what missions to fight, what troops to use, and when to call in reinforcements. Completing objectives and capturing strategic locations such as train stations or airfields in each mission will help you to win subsequent campaigns. Each mission has multiple primary and secondary objectives that are connected to other missions, providing almost limitless strategic choices.
War Front is definitely not a 'historic simulation' but a game with FUN being its number one priority. Expect slightly excessive explosions.
The Harrier APC (Armored Personal Carrier) is a VTOL (Vertical Take Off and Landing) aerial transport that is used by the Allies to drop infantry into locations that lack the space for aircraft runways. As the Focke is completely unarmed, it requires a fighter escort to ensure the safe delivery of its passengers (typically six infantrymen).
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text: Jesus said, "As in the Days of Noah" "Violence Filled the Earth" Jesus spoke far ahead of his time relating to us what life would just prior to his coming. He says in Matt. 24:37-38: "But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. "For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark," (Gen.6-7). The earth being flooded? Certainly no one outside the Church believes this, since this would prove evolution is false. Life will be normal until… It will occur during a time of prosperity when people are buying, selling, marrying, planting, and harvesting. This has to occur before the tribulation since the earth will be devastated by the judgments and wrath of God during the tribulation period. For example, Almost all the grass and trees will be destroyed and almost all the water will be turned to 'blood' (undrinkable) Those will NOT be normal times. They ate, drank, married right up until the time Noah entered the ark. Then the destruction of the flood suddenly came and they were destroyed. In Noah's day there was plenty of warning, but no preparedness. Why? Because they didn't heed him, they mocked. Most of the Church has become indifferent about the second coming replacing it with Church triumphalism, making his kingdom on earth, but the bible clearly states the earth will be just like Noah's day, which is not a pretty scene. It says they will be marrying and given in marriage. Today we see people being married and divorced multiple times. Mal. 2:16 "For the LORD God of Israel says that He hates divorce, for it covers one's garment with violence," This has attributed to our societies breakdown, no commitment, no love. Gen. 6:11-12 "The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence. So God looked upon the earth, and indeed it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted their way on the earth." Today we live in a world constantly threatened by terrorism, in our cities we have hate crimes, drive by shootings, mothers killing their own infant children, parents killing their children, children killing parents, inhuman behavior is becoming the norm, we have run amuck having no restraints. Why? Because there is no law, no real accountability, it's lawlessness. The more tolerance today the less morals we have. There is a relationship between the two, no standard and anything goes. In Israel's apostasy at the end of the Book of judges reads just as our society today, "everyone did what was right in their own eyes." People go to suicide because they have no hope. Euthanasia is becoming an accepted alternative. Light is called darkness and darkness is light. In Satanism up is down, and down is up. It will be a time unlike any other where lawlessness will be the way people live. We already see this occurring. Terrorism, hate crimes our behavior has no restraints, lawlessness is increasingly becoming the norm of society. The President's sex scandal had no affect on his popularity, people don't care, they are in no position to point fingers for that would make them guilty as well. Joel 3:19 "Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom a desolate wilderness, because of violence against the people of Judah, for they have shed innocent blood in their land. Jer 22:17 "Yet your eyes and your heart are for nothing but your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, and practicing oppression and violence." Innocent blood can be those of age and those without ever seeing the outside of the womb.50 million babies are aborted worldwide each year. That is 137,000 lives ended each day this is genocide. The land is defiled by blood. Perilous times are upon us, but without the Bible one can barely recognize this fact. Alcohol kills 65,000 people a year, 22,000 on the highway. Without hope we turn to anything that will ease our pain only to find that it hastens our death. In 1993, William Bennett released his Index of Leading Cultural Indicators. His evaluation of the problem in the past was "Over the years teachers have been asked to identify the top problems in America's public schools. In 1940 teachers identified talking out of turn; chewing gum; making noise; running in halls; cutting in line; dress code infractions; and littering. When teachers were asked the same question in 1990, it was a completely different assessment they identified drug abuse; alcohol abuse; suicide; rape; pregnancy; robbery; and assault." In the last several years we can also add terroristic threatening, mass murder. Littleton, Colorado, is not the first place where troubled teenagers took guns to school and unleashed a deadly attack on their teachers and classmates. It certainly will not be the last. Twice in 1997 in Pearl, Mississippi, and Paducah, Kentucky. It happened three times in 1998 in Jonesboro, Arkansas; and Springfield, Oregon. Edinboro, Pennsylvania Reports of copycat attacks were many afterwards and in Canada it actually occurred. People are turning to violence to vent their personal frustrations. 300 hundred children murder their parents each year. We are called the culture of death not a good label for the generation at the end of the greatest technological time we have ever lived in (Wall Street Journal 4/22). In 1996, 9,390 people were killed in gun related murders. When Matthew Shepard who was a homosexual was murder in Wyoming last year it was called a hate crime. The shootings last month at a Jewish community center in California, the media and politicians condemned it calling this kind of violence "hate crimes," And rightly so. In 1997 when 14-year-old Michael Carneal shot and killed three students praying at Paducah high school in Kentucky to the April murders of Christian students at Columbine High School in Colorado, to the recent Texas church shootings, at Wedgwood Baptist Church in Fort Worth we do not hear on the TV networks about anyone being anti-Christian. But a very clear and obvious disturbing pattern is surfacing. Its not a coincidence that in the recent school tragedy we find Klebold and Harris were influenced by Marilyn Manson a self proclaimed anti-christ whose concerts have Nazi symbols. The murderers were Adolf Hitler lovers, and God haters. It was mostly Christians hunted down by those under the satanic influence What most do not know because of no press reports is that 8 out of 13 children killed were Christians. They were all known as evangelical Christians, is it coincidence? While the enemy made a tragedy out of this God turned it around for his good and many hundreds if not thousands were saved from the gospel being proclaimed. May they rest in peace knowing that they did not die in vain. Lk. 17:28 He writes that it in "Likewise as it was also in the days of Lot: They ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; v.29 "but on the day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and What were the days of Lot like that needed this kind of judgment? Gen. 13:13 "But the men of Sodom were exceedingly wicked and sinful against the LORD." In the days of Lot the people gave themselves over to blatant sexual sin. They were homosexuals and adulterers and engaged in any thing their wicked heart desired. Lawlessness abounded, everyone did whatever they felt like from their own evil heart. It became a normal thing in their cities to live in this manner. Historically the source of violence comes from one that was once close to God, Lucifer. Ezekiel 28:16, "In the abundance of your trade you were filled with violence, and you sinned." This verse speaks of Satan who was then cast as a profane thing from the mount of God. He was "filled with violence" Whereas before he was perfect in all his ways until sin was found in him, the sin of pride. Violence is the physical exhibition of pride. Ps 73:6 Therefore pride serves as their necklace; violence covers them like a garment. "One can recognize that we are a society that is self dependant and self engrossed pride is expressed through violence. Our society has reached the time that can be ripe for judgment. Prov 4:17-19 For they eat the bread of wickedness, and drink the wine of violence. But the path of the just is like the shining sun, that shines ever brighter unto the perfect day. The way of the wicked is like darkness; they do not know what makes them stumble." We have the fruits of our labors today from sowing seeds of discord for years. Prov 21:7 "The violence of the wicked will destroy them, because they refuse to do justice." The spiritual war has been on the increase as Satan's hosts find their expression through ungodly people to do violence working through the sons of disobedience. While God wants to bring order and life, Satan comes to steal away any good thing. What does God say about violence? Psalms 11:5, "The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that loves violence." It also says "all those who love death hate me. " Our video arcades are filled with entertaining games with death-themes. Our movies are filled with violence as well as the TV. Now legislation is sought but is too little and too late? Prov.10:11The mouth of the righteous is a well of life, but violence covers the mouth of the wicked." Hollywood needs to take some of the blame for promoting violence and promiscuity but we need to take responsibility as well. Because we did not speak out and declare Gods standard and his judgement on those who fight against it. Prov. 24:2 For their heart devises violence, and their lips talk of troublemaking. "Its good business to promote exciting films with murder and sex and violence in them for entertainment. But now it has influenced our lifestyle, the enemy of our souls has come to cash in the chips and the cost is high, the lives of the next generation. Our youth today does not have to fear going to war on foreign soil as we did. Instead car accidents, suicide, and homicide, drive by shootings all happen right in front of our face. We can thank our western education of science, telling our children they are accidents of nature from the process of evolution. Without God there is no hope or purpose, we become empty souls in a hollow shell. Humanism has failed miserably as we see post-Christian America going to the pits. No hope, why live, the only alternative is death and killing. Prov. 13:12 "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick." Prov. 26:12 "Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? There is more hope of a fool than of him." Jer. 18:12 "And they said, There is no hope: but we will walk after our own devices, and we will every one do the imagination of his evil heart." This is where we are today our own devices forsaking our maker who is desperately interested in becoming part of our lives to guide us. God asks in Ps.2:1-4 "Why do the nations rage, and the people plot a vain thing? The rulers of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, "Let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us." The storm clouds gathering closed in the distance. We're beginning to see the days of Noah again when men's hearts and the earth will be continually filled with violence. We all have Violence in the heart apart from the new birth. Only the Gospel of Christ will be the modern ark of safety. It needs to be proclaimed clearly and loudly, we may be close to the end of Noah's 120 years. Job 27:8-9 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him? Now we are confronted with an age of terrorism that is not isolated but sweeping the planet. In the name of God those who practicing their religion zealously see it as their duty to rid the world of those who they view as not pleasing God by the use of force. It's in Israel, Africa and in America and it will spread elsewhere , because evil when it is not contained or reduced by an equal force will spread like a fire. We live under a nuclear Damocles more than ever before except now it is not the head nations but third world countries. Its time to pray- Psalm 147:11 "The LORD taketh pleasure in them that fear him, in those that hope in his mercy." May we cry out for mercy on our nation, may we ask for forgiveness for our waywardness, and return to our first love of God, that our prayers may be answered from heaven. Return to God that He may return his mercy to us. |


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Bergamo-Orio al Serio Airport is a common destination for several low cost companies. If you plan to arrive there, take the AUTOSTRADALE bus shuttle (navetta) to Brescia or go to the Bergamo City Railway Station by bus or taxi and take a train to Brescia (one train per hour, 1 hour travel time).
Please note that taxies may be very expensive in Italy.
Both Milano-Linate and Milano-Malpensa airports are well linked with Milan City (by Train or buses) and once there you can take a fast train to Brescia (50 minutes travel time). There are also many Bus-shuttles from Milan Airport to Brescia. Please take a look to the airport web sites.
If you want to travel by train, plan your itinerary on the website of the Italian railways http://www.trenitalia.com/
If you are traveling by car, the nearest exit of motorway is BRESCIA CENTRO, take a look to the Italian motorway website http://www.autostrade.it


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Hundreds of employees of a solar panel factory in Massachusetts are looking for new jobs after the company announced that it's moving the plant to China.
Three years ago, Massachusetts wooed Evergreen Solar to locate in a former Army base in Devens that had been converted into an office park, hoping it would help boost the state's reputation as a hub for green industry. Now, many are second-guessing if and how government should be in the business of helping private business.
A Match Made In Heaven Breaks Up
On paper, it was a match made in heaven. Evergreen moved in and began to reap millions of dollars in fringe benefits, from tax breaks to free rent and cash grants. Evergreen grew from 100 to 800 employees. This month, the state woke up to what was basically a note on the kitchen table saying Evergreen was leaving.
"I was in shock for about a week," says Eric Grieman who works as a wafer fabricator at the company. "I have no clue what I'm going to do next."
"There was shock at every level," echoes Jack Burroughs, an environmental health and safety engineer, who got the news just one week after starting work at Evergreen. "I left a very good job in order to come here. I thought this was a more long-term career opportunity."
A Lack Of Federal Support
While many have directed their anger at Massachusetts for giving too generously to Evergreen, Burroughs says the problem may be that the manufacturer didn't get enough assistance at the federal level.
"I like the idea of the state supporting an industry such as this," he says. "But maybe there needs to be more federal support to help a company be successful."
Gov. Deval Patrick and Greg Bialecki, the state's secretary of housing and economic development, agree.
"We feel like we gave it our best shot," Bialecki says. "And I think, realistically, we have to talk about what role the federal government is going to play to keep manufacturing here and not to let it go overseas."
Evergreen's CEO Michael El-Hillow agrees, saying U.S. manufacturers cannot compete with companies in China that get far more government support.
He says Washington needs to do more to nurture fledgling industries, including changing government procurement policies to require buying American, and easing bank regulations and import duties that put American manufacturers at a disadvantage.
"It's also the role of government to make jobs for our citizens — our children," El-Hillow says. "That's their role. Or let's acknowledge that we're going to lose in the job creation stream."
But others scoff at the notion of a company that was given so much looking for even more. "It sort of has remarkable chutzpah," says Harvard University economics professor Edward Glaeser.
He says government should not be in the business of playing venture capitalist in the first place. And, Glaeser says, Massachusetts officials should have known better than to believe that a manufacturing plant could make it in such a high-cost labor market.
A New Review Process
Bradley H. Jones Jr., a Republican state representative, is one of many voices calling for a new review process for future government subsidies and incentives to private businesses.
He says the state was seduced by the lure of a sexy new industry.
"There was a leading with your heart and not your head," Jones says. Officials were all caught up in the idea that "this is going to put us on the map, and we're going to be green, green, green, and this is going to be great," Jones says. "And I think that served to cloud judgment."
'Get A Better Prenup'
Even Democratic supporters, like state Sen. James Eldridge, whose district includes Fort Devens, where the plant is located, are now expressing morning-after regret.
"I admit I was mistaken," Eldridge says. "I learned my lesson."
Perhaps the most important lesson, he says, is to "get a better prenup."
The state's contract with Evergreen does contain so-called clawbacks — some stronger than others. State officials concede their deal could have been tougher, but ultimately, they say they will recover most of their investment if one includes taxes that have come in, future benefits that will never be paid out, and the fact that the state still gets to keep roads and utilities that were built for Evergreen.
Officials say their costs should also be offset by the fact that hundreds of state residents had jobs through three really tough economic years.
But Harvard's Glaeser says it would be a big mistake to measure the state's energy policy by how it works as a jobs program.
"We need good energy policy," he says. "But the point of that policy should not be to maximize the number of employees. If we try to do energy and jobs together, I think we get neither a good energy program nor a good jobs program. "
In other words, Glaeser says, Massachusetts may have lost 800 jobs, but if the state's investment helps reduce long-term costs of green energy, then it's better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
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Parshat Va'etchanan
Although Moshe is content that Yehoshua will lead the nation, Moshe nevertheless prays to enter the Land of Israel in order to fulfill its special mitzvot. Hashem refuses. Moshe reminds Bnei Yisrael of the gathering at Sinai when they received the Torah that they saw no visual representation of the Divine, but only the sound of words. Moshe impresses on Bnei Yisrael that the Sinai revelation took place before an entire nation, not to a select elite, and that only the Jews will ever claim that Hashem spoke to their entire nation. Moshe specifically enjoins Bnei Yisrael to "pass over" the Sinai event to their children throughout all generations.
Moshe predicts, accurately, that when Bnei Yisrael dwell in Eretz Yisrael they will sin and be scattered among all the peoples. They will stay few in number but will eventually return to Hashem.
Moshe designates three "refuge cities" to which an inadvertent killer may flee. Moshe repeats the 10 Commandments and then teaches the Shema, the central credo of Judaism, that there is only One G-d. Moshe warns the people not to succumb to materialism and thus forget their purpose as a spiritual nation. The parsha ends with Moshe exhorting Bnei Yisrael not to intermarry when they enter Eretz Yisrael, as they cannot be a treasured and holy nation if they intermarry, and they will become indistinguishable from the other nations.
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"And I beseeched G-d at that time, saying" (3:23)
One of the most difficult things to do is to pray.
Nobody has trouble praying when someone is going into the operating theater for a life or death operation, G-d forbid. No one has a problem praying when they walk into the exam hall for an exam that they have only half reviewed. No one has a problem praying when his wife is in the delivery room. The difficult thing is praying on a day-to-day basis. Day in, day out. Thats difficult. How many times do we catch ourselves drifting off in the middle of praying, thinking about business, or someone we saw the other day, or the new toy we want to buy/have bought/shouldnt have bought? Its not by coincidence that Hebrew word for prayer is avoda which literally means "work." Prayer is work. Theres no way around that. But prayer can also be one of the most uplifting human activities. Anyone who ever prayed well, even once, knows that the world is a completely different place after such an experience.
Apart from our own in-built problems with prayer, theres something else that stops us from being able to pray properly. We are literally bombarded from cradle to grave, morning till night with thousands and thousands of images. Images on billboards, in newspapers, books, billboards, buses. Everywhere you look. Everywhere you look an image is trying to invade your head and take up vast amounts of valuable real estate in your consciousness.
It is said of Rabbi Baruch Ber Leibowitz, one of the great pre-war Torah luminaries, that when he went to the store to buy something, he would pull out some loose change from his pocket and motion the storekeeper to take the necessary amount from his cupped hand. The reason was that Rabbi Baruch Ber had never learned the difference between a five kopek piece and a ten. Why would someone of Reb Baruch Bers stature have omitted learning the currency system of the country in which he lived? The answer is that everything takes up space in ones head, and he was not prepared to give up even the smallest piece of mental real estate that might interfere with his Torah learning or his prayer.
Part of the curse of living in exile is that we have so much "stuff" floating around in our heads that it makes it very difficult to focus on our spirituality.
"And I beseeched G-d at that time, saying"
In the above sentence, the phrase "At that time" hints to a prayer for generations unborn. Whenever the Jewish People will find themselves in times of anguish, unable to pray properly because of the mental subjugation of exile, Moshes prayer will arise for us.
And even in the most mind-numbing apathy, when the cord of prayer to the lips has been disconnected from our hearts and all we can do is merely utter the words, Moshe's prayer will arise for us. "At that time", when all we will be able to do is "saying" and there will be no feeling in our words, Moshes prayer will arise in front of G-d to breathe life into our empty words.
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Microsoft and Gartner are squabbling again, this time after the analyst predicted yet another delay to Microsoft's already late-running Windows Vista operating system.
According to Gartner, Windows Vista is unlikely to ship before the second quarter of 2007, pegging it for launch in April next year, with "broad availability" not expected until at least the second quarter. For good measure, the analyst firm noted that Microsoft "consistently misses target dates for major operating system releases". Microsoft must be thanking Gartner for that little reminder.
Microsoft earlier this year pushed back Windows Vista from an expected blockbuster fourth-quarter launch event, opting for a staged delivery that means consumer availability in the first quarter, January 2007, while users on Microsoft's volume licensing agreements get Windows Vista in November.
Any delay would be especially embarrassing to Microsoft, which re-organized in March with news of the split delivery and put Office chief Steven Sinofsky in charge of Windows and the Windows Live Group, to finally kick Windows Vista out the door.
A Microsoft spokesperson said the company "respectfully disagreed" with Gartner's view, and re-stated the party line that Windows Vista would ship in November and January with a second beta due in the second quarter of this year.
Gartner and Microsoft have been scrapping over Windows Vista for some time. The analyst first said Windows Vista could slip into 2007 way back when Microsoft insisted things were on track for a 2004 launch, and has advised customers to hold off installation of the operating system until 2008.
The devil - as ever - appears to lie in the details. Microsoft may well hit its revised delivery dates in November and January, but that would mean that it has won the marathon to deliver Windows Vista on a technicality only. The acid test of delivery is volume availability online, in the channel, and on business and consumers' PCs. That means while Gartner could be correct to say Windows Vista will be further "delayed," whether that qualifies as a classic missed delivery date in the traditional Microsoft definition of the phrase, though, remains to be seen.
Andrew Orlowski adds: "2003 is the next major milestone for us in terms of the Windows release," Bill Gates told the Microsoft Professional Developer Conference back in 2001. For a full, grisly timeline of Longhorn and Vista delays, click here. ®


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I have written a code, and I need a little feed back..
I want to make the Subscript
distributive across (1) addition and (2) multiplication to mimic short-hand for added vectors. For example, in $(p+2k)_i=p_i+2k_i$ the LHS is short-hand for RHS, where the index is not allowed to be on the coefficient 2. Finally, I need exception, where the numeric quantity 0 should be allowed to take an index: that is, $0_i$ should not go to $0$.
My code is:
Subscript[Plus[a_, b___], idx_] :=
Subscript[a, idx] + Subscript[b, idx];
Subscript[Times[a_, b___], idx_] :=
Times[Subscript[a, idx], Subscript[b, idx]];
Subscript[a_?NumberQ, idx_] /; a != 0 := a;
What I did was to define Subscript
as functions, which is already built-in Symbol in Mathematica. The code seems to really work, but I don't know if I deserve a pat-on-the-back for being clever, or be reprimanded for overwriting a built-in Symbol (or for any other bad coding behavior).
Also, is there any obvious way anyone can see this piece of code going wrong? Thanks!!


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VernissageTV interviews artist Ulrich Fischer on the occasion of the presentation of Walking the Edit as part of Image-Mouvement at the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève. More on the project below from VernissageTV:
Conceived by Ulrich Fischer, the system allows the user to create an individual video using already existing images that are connected to a certain place via geotagging. Depending on which route one takes and how fast the user walks, an individual movie is created.
Technically, "Walking the Edit" is based on GPS, geotagging, iPhone app and iPhone. By walking through the streets, the iPhone reveals and collects the audiovisual memory of the place. While walking you hear the movie that you are just editing. Once the movie is finished, you can watch it online on the website and share it with other people.


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Like many things human, how it came to be is complicated. Now, as it dies out, Ninilchik Russian continues to be complicated.
The number of fluent speakers of Ninilchik Russian continues to shrink. To combat the loss, a couple of cousins from the Russian village teamed with academics from Fairbanks to Moscow during the last 15 years to catalog and record the language that settled in the isolation of the Kenai Peninsula during the time of Tsar Alexander I during the waning years of the Russian American Company.
What has only recently been termed as Ninilchik Russian has been spoken continuously for 166 years in the village at the mouth of the Ninilchik River, said Wayne Leman, linguist, author, translator and Ninilchik native.
Leman is credited, along with his cousin, Bobbie Oskolkoff, for their extensive work collecting vocabulary and stories from their families that provide the base for a dictionary and preservation project with linguist Mira Bergelson from Moscow State University and Andrej A. Kibrik, of the Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences.
What is special about Ninilchik Russian to Bergelson is that no other example exists of Russian surviving as the native language in isolation for so long. What is special about the language for Leman is that his mother and grandmother spoke it to him as a child.
Tangled among the roots of the original four families and 16 decades of Ninilchik Russian culture is the pain of assimilation that came near the end – in the 1930s and 1940s – as the culture was forced to become American overnight. It's a fact that makes recent international media attention on the village bittersweet for some of the remaining speakers.
Bobbie Oskolkoff's mother and grandmother spoke Ninilchik Russian. Though she could understand them, she never reached fluency.
"At the time I didn't think much of it or (my) ability to understand," Oskolkoff said.
Her direct interest in the language came later in life as she started to collect the stories about her people and the village. Now living in Kenai, she said that most of her generation did not learn the language either. Some decedents feel bad about not learning the language, but there was sadness attached to Russian language by the time Oskolkoff's generation came along. Her mother and grandmother were punished for speaking in their native language, she said.
"She didn't' want us to suffer like they did," Oskolkoff said of her mother.
Today, it's hard for an outsider to get Joe Leman to talk about his Russian culture and language. The 93-year-old Patriarch of the remaining Russian speakers recently spent a morning with his wife working in the graveyard at the Holy Transfiguration of Our Lord Chapel Russian Orthodox Church in Ninilchik. Leman and his wife still live on the bluff above the village.
As the couple cared for the graves of family and friends, Leman warmly greeted tourists who approached. He talked openly about fishing; snowmachining, fox farming – when it was profitable in the 1920s – and hunting ptarmigan in the hills to the east.
When asked about his first language, Leman said he still speaks Russian with his wife and "yes" he has indeed seen the dictionary that he helped create. It didn't take long for a story to turn down-tempo as he told of a time when the village transitioned from the Russian education of the Orthodox Church to the English school. Leman had some phonetic trouble pronouncing the "th" sounds in his new language, English.
"The teacher said, 'go home,'"Leman said.
With reverence for the pains and embarrassments the last generation of speakers suffered, the cousins still desire to hear Russian spoken by the voices that raised them. Words that make their mouths water.
"We crave being able to speak the language or our parents' hearts," Leman said.
The elders don't speak Russian as a main language anymore, but when they get together they speak their mother tounge. And once the conversations get rolling with stories and jokes it takes them back to their roots.
"It's very special when the elders hear the old jokes," Leman said. "Their eyes light up."
For Leman, one of the greatest outcomes from the attention their language has brought to the community is that there is again pride in knowing how to speak Ninilchik Russian. The project has helped the elders, he said.
"Instead of shame about speaking Russian, the people were excited," Leman said. "The elders felt honor and respect."
The focus on the village being culturally Russian rather than Alaska Native is a correct one according to Bergelson. In private conversations Ninilchik people unequivocally consider themselves Russian rather than Alaska Native, she said.
"You can't have the language without the culture, the food," Oskolkoff said. She considers herself to be Russian, then Alaska Native.
"The history of the Ninilchik dialect embraces four centuries," Bergelson wrote in her conclusion for a paper presented in Moscow last May. "Their descendants managed to maintain their Russian language under the pressure of strong assimilation processes throughout the 20th century, which saw many languages perish."
In 2009 the project returned to earnest work, which expanded the vocabulary collected to include verbs, adverbs and particles. Plans for the dictionary include sound files.
As the end nears for the language, Bergelson considers the work done to this point so thorough that it's unlikely that many more words would be found with further work.
After the language disappears with the last speaker, it will live on in the memories of Wayne Leman's generation and in the dictionary they created. Some words will survive in common family usage.
It is the collected vocabulary of Ninilchik that breaks down the stereotypes of a pidgin language that was, for years, hoisted on Russian speakers along with the cultural insults that went with it.
Academically speaking, Ninilchik Russian is 78 percent standard Russian with an additional 15 percent comprised of other Russian dialects, including a little 19th Century Russian, some Russified English words and half of one percent each of Athabaskan Dena'ina (the Alaska Native language of the Kenai Peninsula) or Alutiiq (The Alaska Native language of the Ninilchik matriarchs). According to the study, three percent of the words in Ninilchik Russian originated in the village itself, words such as Beybchka and gazn' ik, which mean "child" and "gas can" respectively.
"Ninilchik Russian is indeed the Alaskan version of Russian, and nothing like a pidgin or a mixed language," Bergelson reported during her presentation.
Those words became the focus of linguists starting back in the 1980s, then were revisited in the 1990s and again in 2009. Oskolkoff sees the entire vocabulary collection and recordings as a gift to the future generations of Ninilchik descendents so that they never forget who they are.
Leman said Ninilchik Russian is not "exotic," there is just nothing else alive in language to compare it with. There was very little influence in the village from outside well into the 1930s, after the last native speakers were born. With the language goes church, food and housing. Leman said that for many years, well into the 20th Century, people from Ninilchik would say "We are Russians."
As a linguist, it's wonderful to have speakers still around to interview and record for research, Leman said.
"We can preserve the language," he said.
Greg Skinner can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com
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Marine Corps Urgently Requests Bulletproof Underwear
Usually, when Marines talk about protecting their groin, it involves advice about not having too much fun during shore leave. However, a recent request for 27,500 pairs of "ballistic undergarments" from the Marine Corps looks to hook up leathernecks with something a bit stronger than Trojans — bulletproof underwear.
These ultra-tough BVDs would help protect soldiers and Marines from the low-angle explosions associated with landmines and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Since the groin contains so many arteries — and since the need for mobility leaves the groin largely unprotected by traditional body armor — injuries to that area can quickly result in life-threatening blood loss or gruesome infections.
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"I MEF (Fwd) [Marine Expeditionary Force] and 10th Mountain Division forces are sustaining significant injuries to the genital, perinea, and femoral artery areas as a result of combat operations and improvised explosive devices," the Marine Corps solicitation reads. "The loss of forces due to these types of injuries has a significant impact on the unit's combat effectiveness and their ability to sustain operations. Based on analysis in theater, ballistic underwear will drastically improve casualty recovery and reduce secondary infections."
Ballistic underwear, such as the type already used by British soldiers, will not stop direct hits from bullets or shrapnel. Instead, the special skivvies mitigate the wounds by blocking out the small particles that cause additional damage in a blast. Additionally, the undies contain antibacterial treatment to reduce soldiers' risk of wounds becoming infected, allowing for faster recovery.
The underwear is made from special antimicrobial double weave silk. That material actually holds some historic parallels in Afghanistan, as the Mongol horsemen who invaded the country under Genghis Khan also wore silk armor.
The Marines' order will cost around $2 million, and come from the company Cooneen Watt & Stone, the company that supplies the British armed forces. And, having classified the order as having "unusual and compelling urgency," it seems they want them yesterday.
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Syfy has debuted a new teaser for their upcoming series, "Dominon," based on the film Legion by writer-director Scott Stewart.
An epic supernatural drama set in the year 25 A.E., "Dominion" explores a transformed post-apocalyptic future where an army of lower angels, assembled by the archangel Gabriel, has waged a war of possession against mankind. The archangel Michael, turning against his own kind, has chosen to side with humanity against Gabriel. Rising out of the ashes of the 25 year-long battle are newly fortified cities which protect the human survivors. In Vega (formerly Las Vegas), the largest of these cities, two houses vie for control and the stage is set for political upheaval and a dangerous power shift. Meanwhile, a rebellious young soldier begins a perilous journey as the war between the human race and the fallen angels hell-bent on their domination escalates.
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Peach GirlSynopsisAdachi Momo is a girl whose tanned skin and bleached hair gets her into all sorts of trouble with those who assume she's a tanning salon-hopping tramp. It doesn't help that her "best friend", Kashiwagi Sae, couldn't be less of a friend. Sae is constantly stealing Momo's fashion sense, and Momo trys to avoid mentioning her crush on Toujigamori "Touji" Kazuya (can't have Sae stealing her hopes of dating *him* too, right?) In doing so, Momo gets caught in a lie when she points to a random guy and tells Sae she likes him. Turns out he is Okayasu Kairi (Kiley), a smart-mouthed joker with a playboy reputation ... who sees right through Sae and immediately starts going after Momo's attention. What sort of mess has Momo gotten herself into now? ReviewBear with us here -- this is a first impression that will undoubtedly be updated as the series progresses. Unfortunately, the first impression is the most important one, and for all intents and purposes, Peach Girl has blown it. The original Peach Girl manga was a mini-epic shoujo dramedy, with bull-in-a-china-shop Momo trying to juggle the affections of two guys she really honestly likes, all the while dodging the occasionally truly malicious plans of her "friend" Sae. It was a fun read, though it really bogged down halfway through when mangaka Ueda Miwa unwisely decided to turn the whole cast into blithering morons. The anime dispenses with the idea of character development, so, in a way, we're already halfway through Peach Girl right off the bat. The first episode drills through half of the first graphic novel's storyline, never seeming to stop for air (what's a tran-si-tion?). It seems like, BOOM, Momo and Sae are talking in the hall, and WHOOSH, they're still talking, but they're now painting outside, then SWISH, they finish the sentence, but they're in PE class. (ED: Sorry, Raph!) You'd wonder if the director had ever learned the meaning of pacing, but then Ishiodori Hiroshi's only previous directing credit was fourteen years ago in the poorly regarded Bubblegum Crash. They really dusted this guy off ... if he was the only guy they could get, that simply doesn't speak well for the production. And the production values ... we should really find a better term for that, because there's no value here to speak of. The animation is terrible. Even the opening sequence reuses footage, and looks like Flash animation being routed through a 56k modem. The lag in an online game makes for better animation than this slideshow of an anime. The character designs are hit-and-miss -- Sae and Kiley are well-done, but Momo has surprising consistency issues, looking utterly different depending on the angle she is viewed from. Touji's hair color doesn't know what it wants to be, and the boys in general have stubby, baby arms that don't match their body frames. (No wonder Kiley can't swim!) Kohara Mitsuru simply does not perform to par in his character design debut, and Studio Comet (Shura no Toki, Steel Angel Kurumi) really seems to want to take over Studio Pierrot's place as "Studio Low Budget". It's a terrible sign when the SD sequences are the best-animated segments of the show ... and this being the first episode, there's simply no hoping it could get better in the future. One envisions the staff handing out popsicle sticks any day now. To continue with our thorough thrashing of the technical specs, the music is alternately Casio-rific and craptastic. The opening and ending songs aren't even mediocre, and Takumi Masanori (Genshiken) simply doesn't know what to do with the material, phoning in a minimalistic score that sounds more at home in a kid's fighting monster show. It only rises up enough out of the background to be annoying. There is one bright spot so far, and that's the voice acting. Peach Girl would have been utterly unforgivable without a decent lot of seiyuu, and for the most part, the cast does well given the material. The weak link here, unfortunately, is Chiba Saeko as Momo, the lead, who channels her previous subdued role as the athletic Sakura Tsubaki in His and Her Circumstances, which would be fine if that were the character we were looking for. It's not. Momo is obviously supposed to be brash, awkward, and a bit too frank and extraverted to fit into mainstream Japanese culture ... and all we get is the "awkward". She's not bad ... she's just not Momo. Maybe she'll settle into her role in future episodes. The relative neophyte Nasu Megumi, on the other hand, is delightful as the bitch-queen Sae. Suzumura Kenichi takes a complete 180 from his normally stoic roles (Shirou Kamui, X TV; Narumi Ayumu, Spiral) and has a lot of fun with the beautifully skewed role of Kiley. Kiuchi Hidenobu (Tenma, Monster) isn't really given much to work with as the taciturn Touji. It's really just a shame that you're already supposed to know these people, because unless you have already read the manga, it's really hard to figure out why you're supposed to care. A couple more episodes in, and things do settle down slightly, but the characterization and pacing remain decidedly underwhelming, and the animation even more so. I may return to this series when I have a good deal more spare time to devote to it. I can't say the prognosis here is peachy, but at least it's not the pits. Still, I'm fairly convinced this is simply cashing in on the resurgence of this story's popularity among Western fandom (and now Japanese fandom thanks to Ura Peach Girl) rather than a well-crafted story on its own merit. That's a shame. The anime version of Peach Girl highlights all of the flaws of the original manga, rather than improving on them. Perhaps a better production team could have done something with this work, but for now, this stands as a disappointment. Folks unfamiliar with the manga may find this fresh and exciting material, and may give this an extra star or even two. — Carlos/Giancarla Ross and Christi Recommended Audience: Primarily for fans of the manga. There is some violence and adult themes, mostly later in the series. For now it's fine for young teens and up, though later chapters of the manga feature themes involving rape, blackmail, and teen pregnancy. Be warned. Version(s) Viewed: digital source Review Status: Partial (3/25) Peach Girl © 2005 Ueda Miwa / Kodansha / Marvelous Entertainment / Peach Girl Production Committee / TV Tokyo |
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